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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new genetic test that will help health care professionals determine if women with breast cancer are HER2-positive and, therefore, candidates for Herceptin (trastuzumab), a commonly used breast cancer treatment (see also U.S. Food and Drug Administration). The test, called Inform Dual ISH, allows for measurement of the number of copies of the HER2...
June 23, 2011
June 22 - When it comes to local smokers and nonsmokers, the Food and Drug Administration appears to have gotten their attention using disturbing images for cigarette packaging. However, how effective the graphic warnings will be still lies with the beholder. Although some smokers said the images - such as a cadaver with a sewn-up chest, diseased lungs and gums, smoke around an infant - would not deter...
June 22, 2011
June 21 - NEW DELHI - At least 32 children in India's eastern state of Bihar have died from an unidentified illness over the past week, news report and officials said Tuesday. All the victims aged between two and eight years had died in the Muzaffarpur district, some 75 kilometres north of state capital Patna. Bihar Health Minister Ashwani Choubey told the IANS news agency that teams of medical experts...
June 21, 2011
June 21 - There is no safe limit for drinking alcohol and driving, say UC San Diego researchers in a new study. "Buzzed" drivers even with a 0.01 percent blood alcohol concentration are significantly more likely to be involved in accidents that cause injuries than totally sober drivers, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Addiction. The findings suggest the legal blood-alcohol limit...
June 21, 2011
June 21 - She's young, but Ellen Miller is nonetheless concerned about aging. Plus, she's had skin cancer, said Miller, the beauty director for Shape magazine, during a recent phone interview from Texas. "My thought has always been the higher the better, it can't hurt," Miller said about sunscreens and SPF. But there's more to it than that. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration is trying to make buying...
June 21, 2011
Cruising with the windows down and the wind in their hair is how many people like to drive. But that open feeling could be costly. New research suggests that people in the USA are more likely to develop skin cancer, including melanoma and merkel cell carcinoma, on the left side of their bodies. Driving may be to blame: The left arm receives more ultraviolet radiation, say researchers from the University...
June 20, 2011
June 20 - Health insurance companies are inaccurately processing nearly one in five medical claims, slowing payments to doctors and adding bureaucratic headaches to patients, the American Medical Association said this morning. In its annual report card on the health insurance industry, released during the the group's annual House of Delegates meeting here, the AMA said commercial health insurance companies...
June 20, 2011
June 16 - When Lynn Patterson resolved to lose weight early this year, she took a hormone normally associated with pregnancy, not dieting. The 53-year-old Catonsville nurse went on the hCG diet, named for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is produced naturally in pregnant women and often used in fertility treatments to trigger ovulation. Promoters of the diet say hCG suppresses the appetite,...
June 18, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. Women who receive a contraceptive known as an intrauterine device or IUD immediately following a first trimester abortion experience few complications and are less likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who delay getting an IUD by several weeks, according to a new study at Oregon Health & Science University. The findings are published in the June 9 New England Journal of Medicine...
June 17, 2011
Kampala (dpa) - Ugandan health officials said Friday that the country is now free of Ebola, after a national alert was declared on May 6 following the death of a 12-year old girl from the disease. No other person has been declared infected since. "Today, only one case has been confirmed. We have successfully managed to control the epidemic, recording no new cases due to our previous experience in handling...
June 17, 2011
Additional radiation treatment improves disease free survival lessening the chance of cancer recurring in women with early breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy), interim results of a new study found. The results will be presented Monday, June 6 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "These results are potentially practice-changing," said Dr....
June 16, 2011
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI) announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc., has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Levonorgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets, USP, 0.09 mg/0.02 mg, the generic equivalent to Pfizer's Lybrel?? tablets. Watson expects to launch the product shortly (see also U.S. Food and Drug Administration). Lybrel??...
June 16, 2011
Women with low bone density are seven times more likely to benefit from a bisphosphonate drug when their vitamin D blood levels are above recent recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) as adequate for bone health. These new study results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston (see also Osteoporosis). "Maintaining adequate vitamin D levels above...
June 16, 2011
June 16 - When Lynn Patterson resolved to lose weight early this year, she took a hormone normally associated with pregnancy, not dieting. The 53-year-old Catonsville nurse went on the hCG diet, named for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that is produced naturally in pregnant women and often used in fertility treatments to trigger ovulation. Promoters of the diet say hCG suppresses the appetite,...
June 16, 2011
Kaiser Health News (MCT) WASHINGTON - An influential independent congressional advisory group is urging lawmakers to crack down on doctors who order too many MRIs for seniors, setting off a battle with physicians and patient groups who argue that Medicare beneficiaries might suffer significant delays in treatment. The recommendation by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission would require some physicians...
June 16, 2011
In a clinical trial that included nearly 80,000 women, those who received ovarian cancer screening did not have a reduced risk of death from ovarian cancer compared to women who received usual care, but did have an increase in invasive medical procedures and associated harms as a result of being screened, according to a study in the June 8 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on cancer. The study is being...
June 16, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore. Women who receive a contraceptive known as an intrauterine device or IUD immediately following a first trimester abortion experience few complications and are less likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who delay getting an IUD by several weeks, according to a new study at Oregon Health & Science University. The findings are published in the June 9 New England Journal of Medicine...
June 16, 2011
A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston (see also Menopause). "In postmenopausal women the appearance of the skin may offer a glimpse of the skeletal well-being, a relationship not previously described," said Lubna...
June 16, 2011
Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). These results of a new study are being presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston (see also Anorexia). A large proportion of adolescents...
June 16, 2011
A Canadian-led clinical trial has found that additional radiation treatment improves disease-free survival in women with early breast cancer and reduces the risk of cancer recurrence, a finding that could potentially change the standard treatment for this group of patients. The trial was led by the NCIC Clinical Trials Group, which is funded by the Canadian Cancer Society (see also Breast Cancer)....
June 16, 2011
Use of four of the most commonly prescribed seizure-control drugs at the beginning of pregnancy is associated with a dose-dependent increased risk of major birth defects. The findings, from 33 countries worldwide published Online First in The Lancet Neurology, are the first to provide a multivariable analysis of the risks associated with individual drugs and their doses, and will be crucial in helping...
June 16, 2011
Paris (dpa) - The burger meat blamed for infecting at least six children in the north of France with a rare type of E coli bacteria came from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the French producer of the burgers said Thursday. Six children between the ages of 20 months and eight years were being treated in hospital in the city of Lille after being admitted Wednesday with symptoms of acute food poisoning....
June 16, 2011
Landon Lewis, 4, was living in a Minneapolis homeless shelter when he fell ill, first with a fever of 104 degrees, then with a red rash on his forehead. It took two visits to a doctor to diagnose a disease clinic staff hadn't seen in years: measles. The rash spread into his mouth and throat, so swallowing was torture. He began vomiting and developed a cough that nearly choked him. He was rushed to...
June 15, 2011
June 15 - When Dr. Ali Mokdad left Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Seattle and the University of Washington, he did a surprising thing for his 11-year-old daughter. "I increased her life expectancy," said Mokdad, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the university. The group on Wednesday released a county-by-county look at...
June 15, 2011
June 15 - In a new study of pesticides and produce, the fruits and vegetables that need to be peeled have been branded the best. The apple, eaten skin-on, is at the bottom of the barrel. Conventionally grown celery, strawberries and peaches also have comparatively high amounts of pesticide residue, according to the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based nonprofit that studies food contaminants...
June 15, 2011
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